Octavio Dotle, who picked up a 15 -year career for 13 Major League teams and won the World Championship with St. Louis Cardinals, was one of the dead after a roof collapsed at a nightclub in his original Dominican Republic, where he was participating in a mergue concert. He was 51 years old.
Officials initially said that Dotell was rescued from the rubble and taken to a hospital, but Sonoski Terroro, spokesman of the Republic of Dominican Republic, confirmed the Associated Press that Dotell died on Tuesday.
Officials said at least 58 people were killed and 160 were injured after falling into the jet set nightclub. Tony Blanco, who played an MLB season in Japan and eight years professionally, also died after falling, Terroo said.
Dotel signed in 1993 as an amateur -free agent with New York Met’s and started its major league in 1999. At the beginning of his career, a starter, he turned into a reliable and several times a major reluctant while appearing in 758 matches from 1999-2013.
When he took a mound for Detroit Tigers on 7 April 2012, he set a record for playing records for the largest league teams of the 13 -year -old. Edwin Jackson broke the record in 2019 when he picked for his 14th team.
Mets placed a moment of silence for Dotle before their game against Mimi on Tuesday, and a Dominican flag was shown on the video scoreboard.
In the early 2000s, Dotel’s best year was with Houston Astro. He was a setup man for star closure Billy Wagner, who was showing 302 and posting 3.25 ERAs in the four-plus season. He was fifth of the six pitches for alliances against New York Yankis in 2003. The following year, he was part of a three-way trade that brought Carlos Beltron to Astro.
Before landing with Cardinals, Dotell picked for nine teams, who acquired them from Toronto on the 2011 trading deadline. He appeared in 12 Postsen Games, including five in the world series against Texas.
In 2013, he picked up the Dominican Republic team, who won the World Baseball Classic with a record of 8–0.
Dotel completed his major league career with 1,143 strikeouts in 951 innings, a great rate of 10.8 per nine innings. His career was 59–50 records, 109 sevs and 3.78 ERA.
In 2019, Dotail and former former Legier Louis Castilo was a large US and Dominican Laws among 18 people detained against smuggling and money laundering during the enforcement operation. Dotell and Castillo were released when a Dominic Magistrate Judge found inadequate evidence to connect them to the operation.
Reporting by Associated Press.
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